The company has tied up with several local merchants to let customers chat with them and easily make payments. You have to add your debit or debit-enabled combo card just once to start transacting with your friends and businesses. For now, the company will support debit or credit cards from Banco do Brasil, Nubank, and Sicredi on the Visa and Mastercard networks. The chat apps said sending money or making purchases on WhatsApp is free for individual users: In future, WhatsApp wants to enable people using a single card across Facebook’s family of services.

  Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, June 15, 2020 The company started testing payments feature in India first in 2018. However, it hasn’t been able to roll it out due to regulatory roadblocks. Earlier this year, Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg had said that WhatsApp Pay will be launching in several countries in the next six months.